Beijing, April 4 (Zhongxin Net) -- Spring plowing is busy, and at the same time, anti-corruption actions in the field of grain purchase and sales are also deepening. Relevant experts said that corruption in grain purchase and sales is an area in which clues to problems have been concentrated, cases have been high and frequent in recent years, and problems among the masses have been relatively concentrated.
Farmers are operating a new generation of multifunctional no-till seeders for spring plowing. Photo by Lv Shengnan
Official Continues to Signal Strict Experts analyze that anti-corruption has entered a new stage
Less than two months after fleeing, he was arrested, and Li Xi'an, former director of the Xi'an Food Bureau, was arrested not long ago. This case reflects the high pressure and thunder of the current anti-corruption action in the field of grain purchase and sales.
In August 2021, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection deployed a nationwide special rectification of corruption in the field of grain purchase and sales. On 8 April this year, the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily reported under the title "Rectifying the Problem of Relying on Grain to Eat Food" that a large number of "giant rats" and "silverfish" in grain warehouses were seriously investigated and dealt with, including Xu Baoyi, former member of the leading party group and deputy general manager of the China Grain Reserve Management Group Corporation, Zhang Wufeng, former secretary of the leading party group and director of the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau, and more than 4 cadres at the department and bureau level.
"Although food system corruption occurs in many areas such as food supervision, storage, rotation, purchase and sales, and financial management, the field of food purchase and sales is a key area of concentrated power, capital intensity, and resource enrichment."
Peng Xinlin, a professor at the Law School of Beijing Normal University, told Chinanews.com that grain purchase and sales involve acquisition, warehousing, warehousing and other links, often implemented by multiple people inside and outside collusion, there are more prominent industrial and systemic corruption problems in this field, in a relatively independent and lack of supervision environment, some chaos in this field is difficult to be detected in time.
Since the beginning of this year, officials have continued to send strict signals on deepening the special rectification of corruption in the field of grain purchase and marketing. On January 1, the communiqué of the Second Plenary Session of the 10th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was published, specifically mentioning the key areas of the next stage of the party's work style and clean government, including grain purchase and sales. Subsequently, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Special Rectification Work on Corruption in the Field of Grain Purchase and Marketing".
"This year, the anti-corruption in the field of grain purchase and sales will enter a new stage, from special rectification to comprehensive rectification." Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Building a Clean Government at Peking University, analyzed to Chinanews.com.
Villagers drive farm machinery to plow the fields. Photo by Zhang Wenjun
Grain Enterprises Collapse Corruption What is the difficulty in rectifying "relying on grain for food"?
"Granary rat" is one of the top ten anti-corruption hot words in 2021 published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. The term has been interpreted as emboldened and insatiable "food for food" corrupt elements.
In recent years, "granary rats" who "rely on grain to eat food" have frequently appeared in the cases reported in various places. In Peng Xinlin's view, the main reasons are the lack of supervision, internal and external collusion, and lax law enforcement.
On April 4, the Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision notified Guan Fei, former party secretary and chairman of Anhui Grain Group Co., Ltd., and Zhou Xinkai, three "number one" serious violations of discipline and law.
From 2002 to 2021, Guan Fei, Nie Jun, and Zhou Xinkai took the lead in violating discipline and law as the "number one" of the provincial grain group for three consecutive terms, and tacitly condoned the violations of discipline and law by team members and subordinates, resulting in systematic and collapsed corruption of the provincial grain group; Taking advantage of his position to seek benefits for others in the operation of grain business, project contracting, project construction, etc., accepting bribes of more than 3 million yuan, more than 500.330 million yuan and more than 290.2 million yuan respectively, suspected of the crime of accepting bribes; Guan Fei's failure to conscientiously perform his duties led to the illegal misappropriation of huge trade finance loans, resulting in a loss of more than 3 million yuan in state-owned assets; Nie Jun and Zhou Xinkai defrauded the state of more than 690.200 million yuan and <> million yuan in state subsidies by "aging grain," "turning grain," and "grain at a price difference," respectively, and were suspected of embezzlement.
In addition, recent reports in Shaanxi, Liaoning and other places have also appeared a number of corruption problems involving provincial grain groups "relying on grain for food".
Peng Xinlin said that in practice, there are many problems, long lines, wide areas, and difficult supervision in the field of grain purchase and sales, and it is difficult to cover the whole chain and cycle to a certain extent by traditional supervision forces and supervision methods. For example, there are many problems such as the ability of grain to clear customs and accept grain "with Chen Dingxin", the false rotation of "rotating grain", and the unauthorized use of reserve grain for processing and sales, all of which are closely related to the lack of supervision or the same lack of supervision, and many of them have important relations with the incorrect performance of duties and dereliction of duty and negligence by the "number one" of grain storage departments and subordinate enterprises.
Villagers rushed to spring plowing. Photo by Zhang Wenjun
Rounding up the "granary rat" How to play a "combination punch"?
Following self-examination and self-correction, case investigation, system construction, smart grain depot, and normalized supervision, the article "Correcting and Relying on Food for Food" also disclosed that strengthening coordination and linkage with public security and judicial organs has become a new set of "combined fists" to deepen special rectification.
According to the article, in the course of investigating and handling the case of Zhang Dongsheng, former deputy general manager of the Guangxi Branch of the China Grain Reserve Group Corporation, the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision discovered that the enterprises actually controlled by Zhang Dongsheng's relatives used false reporting of policy-oriented grain collection and storage quantities, fictitious grain stocks, and other fraudulent means to obtain and defraud the state grain procurement funds. The Fourth Supervision and Inspection Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission consulted with the Ministry of Public Security to designate the public security organs of Shanxi Province to conduct investigations in accordance with the law. Under the overall coordination of the Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs in Shanxi and Liaoning worked together to successfully detect the contract fraud case and comprehensively investigate the criminal facts of defrauding the national policy grain special fee subsidy.
"The special field should continue to deepen, in addition to system construction, more importantly, there must be new breakthroughs in the working mechanism." Zhuang Deshui said that the coordinated promotion between the three departments is conducive to innovating the working mechanism to solve the problem of corruption in the food field, which can break the embarrassing situation of fighting separately and effectively supervise all links in the entire food field.
He also mentioned that in the next step to continue to deepen the rectification of corruption in the field of grain purchase and sales, on the one hand, it is necessary to summarize and sort out major corruption cases and summarize the prominent corruption risk problems; on the other hand, establish rules and systems, in view of the typical problems that occur at present, firmly establish the cage of the system, reduce the probability of related corruption problems, and block the occurrence of corruption problems in the field of grain purchase and sales from the source. (End)